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Season Nine

Queer
films have been thrilling and enlightening audiences since the
prehistory of cinema (two women kissing in 1888 in Muibridge’s
Plate
444,
or two men dancing together in 1895 in Dickson’s Experimental
Sound Film),
and will continue to do so in the future of cinema (see Ximena
Cuevas’ experimental lesbian videoart, or Yobert Yang’s cottaging
simulation videogame The
Tearoom,
of2017).
Queer-friendly and LGBTQ filmmakers have made movies in every genre:
romance, documentary, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, horror,
musical. AND they have also made movies that are impossible to
classify... Because they don’t want to be classified. Because they
rather invent their own genres. Because they want to use a secret
code. Because they don’t care if they’re seen as camp, mad, fab,
or ‘gas’.

The word “queer” originally meant ‘weird’. Join
us as we celebrate the weird and wonderful and forgotten heritage of
unclassifiable queer films. Unique propositions, with just one thing
in common: a touch of divine madness.